Ex 34:20 "But the firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb. And if you will not redeem him, then you shall break his neck.
The Lord said that all the firstborn of every creature belonged to Him. The problem was that the donkey was an unclean animal. It was therefore unacceptable. Without being redeemed, it was facing a sure death.
My friend, we are the donkey here. By creation we belong to God. But because of the Fall, we became sinners that are defiled and are therefore unacceptable to God. Without a sacrifice, without the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world, without redemption, we are facing a sure and certain death in the lake of fire.
Don't come to God in yourself and by yourself. Come to Him, trusting in the Lord Jesus Christ and what He did on the cross for you.
Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Thursday, May 24, 2018
GOSPEL NUGGET #544
Righteousness Revealed, Reigning And Residing
* Righteousness Revealed
Today, righteousness is revealed through the Gospel proclamation. No excuse in being ignorant as to how to be right with God. In the Millennium, righteousness will reign. Today, sin reigns in this present evil age. But one day, righteousness will triumph. In the coming new universe, righteousness will reside. Purged with all sin and evil, the universe will be a home for righteousness.
Get on the side with righteousness now. Be on the winning team. Get right with God now by trusting in the Gospel. The Gospel is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and what He did on the cross for our sins with Him resurrecting from the dead.
* Righteousness Revealed
Ro 1:16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God to salvation for everyone who believes, for the Jew first and also for the Greek.
17 For in it the righteousness of God is revealed...
* Righteousness Reigning
Isa 32:1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness...
* Righteousness Residing
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
* Righteousness Reigning
Isa 32:1 Behold, a king will reign in righteousness...
* Righteousness Residing
2Pe 3:13 Nevertheless we, according to His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth in which righteousness dwells.
Today, righteousness is revealed through the Gospel proclamation. No excuse in being ignorant as to how to be right with God. In the Millennium, righteousness will reign. Today, sin reigns in this present evil age. But one day, righteousness will triumph. In the coming new universe, righteousness will reside. Purged with all sin and evil, the universe will be a home for righteousness.
Get on the side with righteousness now. Be on the winning team. Get right with God now by trusting in the Gospel. The Gospel is the Lord Jesus Christ Himself and what He did on the cross for our sins with Him resurrecting from the dead.
Thursday, April 19, 2018
GOSPEL NUGGET #543
The Last Will And Testament Of The Lord Jesus Christ
For hundreds of years, after the death, resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus to heaven, people have been resting their hope upon a set of documents known today as the New Testament.
In law, the word "testament" refers to a document communicating the person's final wishes pertaining to the disposition and distribution of his properties after he dies.
When the Lord Jesus left this earth to return to His Father in heaven, He gave and handed down to mankind the possession of eternal life and salvation which a sinner could have, provided that he or she fulfills a certain condition.
John 20:31 says that "...these are written that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing you may have life in His name."
The testator (the Lord Jesus Christ) says that you can possess His salvation and eternal life if you put your trust in Him and what He did on the cross. There is so much more. God the Father has a lot in store for Him in the future and you can be His co-heir if you accept the condition that He has set in His last will and testament.
Have you read His last will and testament (the NT)? Have you fulfilled the condition?
Sunday, April 15, 2018
GOSPEL NUGGET #542
Mr 9:8 Suddenly, when they had looked around, they saw no one anymore, but only Jesus with themselves.
It says here that they “… saw no one…but (or except) Jesus only.”
Let’s apply this to salvation. You know, salvation is just like that. Salvation is seeing no one and nothing else except Jesus only. Sadly, when it comes to personal salvation, a lot of people see themselves in it too. They see their good works, their good character and their religious activities.
No. No. No. Just as they saw no one except Jesus only on the Mount of Transfiguration, so, in Mount Salvation, we should see no one and nothing else except Jesus only and what He did on the cross.
When Paul came to Corinth, he said that “I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified (1 Cor. 2:2).”
You see, salvation is seeing Jesus only and what He did on the cross. It is trusting and relying on His person and work on the cross. My friend, if you want to be saved. Behold no one and nothing else. Behold Jesus only.
It says here that they “… saw no one…but (or except) Jesus only.”
Let’s apply this to salvation. You know, salvation is just like that. Salvation is seeing no one and nothing else except Jesus only. Sadly, when it comes to personal salvation, a lot of people see themselves in it too. They see their good works, their good character and their religious activities.
No. No. No. Just as they saw no one except Jesus only on the Mount of Transfiguration, so, in Mount Salvation, we should see no one and nothing else except Jesus only and what He did on the cross.
When Paul came to Corinth, he said that “I determined to know nothing among you except Jesus Christ, and Him crucified (1 Cor. 2:2).”
You see, salvation is seeing Jesus only and what He did on the cross. It is trusting and relying on His person and work on the cross. My friend, if you want to be saved. Behold no one and nothing else. Behold Jesus only.
Monday, April 2, 2018
GOSPEL NUGGET #541
A magazine told a story about a young blind girl who was trapped in the fourth floor of an apartment building which caught fire. She was standing by the window with the billowing smoke engulfing her, with the intense heat surrounding her and the raging fire threatening her.
The firemen hurriedly came to the scene and prepared the safety net for her down below, while the fire chief emerged out of a vehicle and pleaded with her over an amplifier to jump: "We'll catch you! You just jump, we'll catch you!" But the girl could not bring herself to jump.
A very alert police officer came up with an idea. A short while later, a cruiser appeared with all the lights flashing and the sirens going. A man, the blind girl's father, jumped out of the backseat and run to the fire chief and grabbed the amplifier from his hand and directed it to her daughter up above and said: "Honey jump! I will catch you!"
She jumped. Time magazine said that she jumped from the fourth floor of the building into the net without breaking a single bone in her body, indicating that she was so relaxed in the fall, from the top of the building down into the net.
This is a picture of the call of salvation from God. We are on the verge of the fires of judgment. There is nothing we can do. But God has set up His safety net for us in the cross of Calvary, where the Savior died for all our sins.
And God no less, as it were, takes up His megaphone and pleads with us: "Sinner and yet loved, jump! Jump into the Savior and what He did on the cross, rely on what He did for your salvation. I will catch you through Him!"
Will you jump?
The firemen hurriedly came to the scene and prepared the safety net for her down below, while the fire chief emerged out of a vehicle and pleaded with her over an amplifier to jump: "We'll catch you! You just jump, we'll catch you!" But the girl could not bring herself to jump.
A very alert police officer came up with an idea. A short while later, a cruiser appeared with all the lights flashing and the sirens going. A man, the blind girl's father, jumped out of the backseat and run to the fire chief and grabbed the amplifier from his hand and directed it to her daughter up above and said: "Honey jump! I will catch you!"
She jumped. Time magazine said that she jumped from the fourth floor of the building into the net without breaking a single bone in her body, indicating that she was so relaxed in the fall, from the top of the building down into the net.
This is a picture of the call of salvation from God. We are on the verge of the fires of judgment. There is nothing we can do. But God has set up His safety net for us in the cross of Calvary, where the Savior died for all our sins.
And God no less, as it were, takes up His megaphone and pleads with us: "Sinner and yet loved, jump! Jump into the Savior and what He did on the cross, rely on what He did for your salvation. I will catch you through Him!"
Will you jump?
Tuesday, March 20, 2018
GOSPEL NUGGET #540
Ro 5:8 But God demonstrates His own love toward us, in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.
Joh 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
You know, God would rather die than see you perish and go to hell. And that's exactly what He did in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity. He wants you saved. He wants you to be with Him forever and ever.
But He will not force you against your will. Because He is a God of love, He grants you to either reject Him or receive Him freely. Will you not turn and come to Him in repentance and faith?
Joh 3:16 "For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.
You know, God would rather die than see you perish and go to hell. And that's exactly what He did in the person of the Lord Jesus Christ, the second person of the Trinity. He wants you saved. He wants you to be with Him forever and ever.
But He will not force you against your will. Because He is a God of love, He grants you to either reject Him or receive Him freely. Will you not turn and come to Him in repentance and faith?
Sunday, March 11, 2018
GOSPEL NUGGET #539
Jude 1:11 Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain ...
What was the way of Cain? Among other things, Cain, as we read in the book of Genesis, was a man who did not have an adequate sense of sin. Hence, he was a man who did not see his need of atonement. Instead of offering a sacrifice, which was a picture of the coming sacrifice of the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, he, instead, offered the work of his hands from the ground; he did not offer an atoning sacrifice at all.
There are people who go about this moral universe who resist the nagging conviction that they are sinners, worthy of judgment, unable to save themselves. Hence, they are a people who see no need of what the Lord Jesus Christ did for them on the cross. Instead, they rely on what they are and what they have accomplished for salvation.
Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain!
My friend, don't you sense the sad fact that you are a sinner worthy of judgment? A sinner who is totally helpless in saving your self? Have you not realized your need of the Savior and what He did on the cross for your sins?
Are you one of the many who tread on Cain's Street?
What was the way of Cain? Among other things, Cain, as we read in the book of Genesis, was a man who did not have an adequate sense of sin. Hence, he was a man who did not see his need of atonement. Instead of offering a sacrifice, which was a picture of the coming sacrifice of the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ, he, instead, offered the work of his hands from the ground; he did not offer an atoning sacrifice at all.
There are people who go about this moral universe who resist the nagging conviction that they are sinners, worthy of judgment, unable to save themselves. Hence, they are a people who see no need of what the Lord Jesus Christ did for them on the cross. Instead, they rely on what they are and what they have accomplished for salvation.
Woe to them! For they have gone in the way of Cain!
My friend, don't you sense the sad fact that you are a sinner worthy of judgment? A sinner who is totally helpless in saving your self? Have you not realized your need of the Savior and what He did on the cross for your sins?
Are you one of the many who tread on Cain's Street?
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